What ridiculous things have you tried?

Old Duck

Old Duck
I've been playing ED for about a month, and I'm currently in deep space trying my hand at some true exploration. The monotony has me dreaming up different ridiculous "experiments" to try in this game, but I suspect whatever I think up, one or more of you have already tried. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here is something I'd love to try someday:

I would love to get a group of 20 or so people in Sidewinders or other "disposable" ships all loaded with torpedoes, and launch a massive salvo at an outpost. I'm pretty sure stations and outposts are indestructible (I've read this is the case with capital ships), but it would make for a really cool video. Has anyone tried this in this past? I know, it's a ridiculous idea, but that's what space madness does to a man.

What other ridiculous things have you folks attempted to do over the years in ED? Has any of these things actually worked?
 
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GODofDUTY83

GODofDUTY83
Railgun Eagle.
Thing was ridiculous, ridiculously fun.
Granted it microwaved itself everytime I fired a salvo but it was a great little beast. A solid Clipper killer it was, back before engineering was a thing. The only thing it needed was a black and yellow striped paint job, so it looked like a wasp. It certainly had the sting.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Tried getting an SRV into orbit by landing it on top of a ship while it was taking off. Tried parking it on top of the buildings of a planetary base with the goal being ramming ships with the SRV as they came into land. Varying levels of success mostly just fer the lols ^
 

Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
Turn off your discovery scanners.

Now find the black hole.

(actually I did it with the intermediary scanner active)
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
I want to fly down in normal space to the core of a white dwarf or neutron star. see if i can get close to the collapsed remnant in the middle.
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Old Duck said:
What other ridiculous things have you folks attempted to do over the years in ED? Has any of these things actually worked?
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Don't know about over the years, but I'm currently trying to get the hang of planetary braking. Which is ridiculous, as half the time I miss the planet completely, and the other half I slap right bang into it (or rather, am stopped short before I do). :) However, I have had two efforts that went ok, and the satisfaction of that is worth the hundreds of other times where I fail. :)
 

Cruel_R

Cruel_R
Drove my SRV over an ice geyser on a low-g planet this morning. Ended up several kilometres in the air. Good times.
 

EValve

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Smecca is BMFE said:
850 m/s shieldless courier, boost, FA off flips into the station, try not to die
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I'm dying to know how that works.

I've been putting in numbers in coriolis and the only way for you to get to 850 in an imperial courier is to have an optimal multiplier of 40%. That is 10% above maximum value. Can I see a screenshot of that roll?
 

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
BASE jumping party .. off the Altais 2B Monolith
it's only 7km straight down, what you on about?

Full on science experiment to work out how efficient the class 2 powerplant is ..
that'll be a fuel consumption .. of 22.2 grams of hydrogen per second, per mega-watt output

and

Travelled out to Merope to farm meta-materials from a barnacle.
Searched all over, found barnacle but it was singing, couldn't bring myself to open fire ..
.. took screenshot, went home again.
 
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Smecca is BMFE

Smecca is BMFE
EValve said:
I'm dying to know how that works.

I've been putting in numbers in coriolis and the only way for you to get to 850 in an imperial courier is to have an optimal multiplier of 40%. That is 10% above maximum value. Can I see a screenshot of that roll?
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It's a 135 roll with a good optimal mass. Lightweight mods on things like sensors make up the rest. I'll get some shots later.
 

SpeakerToAliens

SpeakerToAliens
Early on I tried to fly from one star system to another in SC. I ran out of fuel (pre fuel-rats) - didn't have enough to jump to another star by the time I realised I was running low.

When I get a new ship-type I routinely take it to Hutton (FTM). Then one day I bought my first T7 ... <sigh>
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
I remember getting addicted to planetary landings...those times when ye get a straight run flat out 45 degree angle perfectly stopping withing 5km of the exact spot ye intended...if it were golf, thats the sweet spot right there.

Now try that on a 5.5g planet with unmodded D rated asp without knowing its 5.5g...see how that goes :D

One was somewhat highly intoxicated at the time and forgot to check the gravity...one of those times where by the time ye realize yer mistake, ye get a whole 20 seconds to try and fight the inevitable faceplant into terra firma...at the risk of losing 3 months scan data in the process.

I was lucky, I only lost 72% of my hull 11klys out ^

Note to self...stop playing russian roulette with gravity and stop flying ships with silly setups ^
 

Deep Thought 42

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I can not Find The Large Pad
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LOL
 

Susanna

Susanna
You could try a few of these... Best watched on YouTube rather than here as that has HD.

Thread the needle. This was particularly fun. And damned hard as the maneuvering time is next to zero... Makes you realise just how damned fast you are going!

[video=youtube_share;Q551N0dpeI4]https://youtu.be/Q551N0dpeI4[/video]

Geyser Jumping

[video=youtube_share;KQxhqwQCKdY]https://youtu.be/KQxhqwQCKdY[/video]

Leap of faith

[video=youtube_share;XSF_v1glMhM]https://youtu.be/XSF_v1glMhM[/video]
 
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urFOOLISHNESS

U
My player group did battle bots. We engineered up some keelbacks and got in the slfs and had our npc pilots battle each other (to 50% hull) it was silly fun. Also keelbacks look so cool with the thrusters rotating.
 
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